Roll the Dice

[30 Minutes]

You will enjoy playing this game of "chance." The object of the game is to score as many points as possible in five throws of the dice.

You'll need:

• 5 dice • pencil and paper for scorekeeping

What to do:

1. If possible, print out these directions. Read them through before you begin.
2. Gather everything you’ll need.
3. The total number of dots showing determines the score of each roll.
4. Dice that land with two or five dots showing, however, score nothing.
5. In addition, when a 2 or 5 is thrown, these dice must be set aside and not rolled again. For instance, if on the first roll a player gets 2, 3, 4, 4, and 5, he must eliminate the 2 and 5 from the next throw and from then on will have only three dice to roll.

How to play:

1. Player 1 is given five throws of all five dice in which to score as many points as possible.
2. He continues to roll the dice through the five rolls, adding together all dice that reveal one, three, four, and six spots and setting aside the 2’s and 5’s.
3. Then player 2 rolls the dice.
4. The scores are totaled and then the game continues with two more rounds.
5. The player with the highest score at the end of the three rounds is the winner!

Useful information:

My Gramps and I play this game on rainy days when we can't go outside for his afternoon walk. We have tournaments and for some reason he usually wins! (Dana, age 13)